technology.timesonline.co.uk - 1/22/2009
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The 240-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica has taken a giant leap into the world of Web 2.0 with the launch of a new online version where users can contribute and edit content. In a move that takes it head to head with Wikipedia, new features on the Britannica site will allow users to edit and ...
techcrunch.com - 1/19/2009
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techcrunch.com —
It’s time for an update on the progress
we’ve made on the low cost touch screen tablet...
that I first wrote about in July 2008 when I asked for a dead simple touch screen web tablet that boots right to the browser. Here’s our first ...
(more)
TechCrunch Tablet Update: Prototype B
voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/23/2009
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Britannica President Slams Google As It Becomes More of An Open Book
Wired: Epicenter —
... "We’re not trying to be a tabloid or reality TV [type of product]. We are
a different type of animal, catering to a different type of crowd," he said in a separate interview with the Times Online. ...
Encyclopædia Britannica to incorporate user-generated content
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine —
... , the company will retain its 100 full-time editors and 4,000 expert contributors and each article will have a detailed history with changes and who made them. “I think the future is likely going to be that in every media segment there has to be a symbiotic relationship between editor and reader,” Britannica 's president, Jorge Cauz told the Times newspaper... ...
Britannica Takes Aim at Wikipedia
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... in Australia and The Times in the U.K. that Britannica plans to offer the new features on its Website soon. Cauz made it clear, however, that anything submitted by users will have to be vetted by one of the encyclopedia's staff of paid researchers before it appears either on the Website or in the actual print version of the EB. "We're not trying to be a wiki -- that's the last thing we want to be," he told The Times . "Britannica doesn't offer that voyeuristic benefit. Users won't be able to write anything they want and have it published." The changes -- which are just ...
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